Prime Minister Stephen Harper is poised to fire the starting pistol Sunday for an 11-week political marathon that will end Oct. 19, when voters decide whether he deserves a fourth straight mandate. An advisory from the Prime Minister’s Office said that Harper will meet with Governor General David Johnston at Rideau Hall at 10 a.m. […]

The fed­er­al elec­tion campaign that was launched Sun­day will be the first with dramatic changes to electoral ridings. Elec­tions Canada, to re­flect popu­la­tion chan­ges, cre­at­ed 30 new rid­ings across Canada, adding six in Alberta.

Stephen Harper is off and running — and Tom Mulcair is right behind him.
The NDP leader kicked off his party’s election campaign — the “Campaign for Change” — across the river from Parliament Hill just moments after his Conservative rival asked Governor General David Johnson to dissolve Parliament.

Let’s get this cleared up now: The prime minister doesn’t “drop the writ.” The prime minister has no such function – and no writs, either. And “dropping” is just the wrong word. Q. Well, what is this writ business, then? A. This piece of popular, uniquely Canadian but misused electoral language is snappy shorthand for the prime […]

A man was charged by RCMP Friday night trying to bring a wide variety of drugs into the Grimshaw Rodeo. The discovery was made by a police checkstop set up at the entrance to Queen Elizabeth Provincial Park, where the rodeo was held from July 31 to Aug. 2.

Five keys to success for the Green party 1. Get past the environment. To make a breakthrough, it’s important for the party to make it clear to voters that they are about more than just environmental issues. Some might still see the Greens as a one-note party. So it needs to stress economic and social […]